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  • 2.4 Mb Genome Size for World's Biggest Virus

    The genome size of new discovered Pandoraviruses have roughly twice the size of the record-holding Megavirus genomic code. Interestingly only 6 percent...//www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/07/18/203298244/worlds-biggest-virus-may-have-ancient-roots  ...

    3885 days ago

  • Vaccination can be dangerous sometimes !!!

    It is always believed that vaccination is permanent cure fr...antibodies that bound the cap and the stem of that virus’s haemagglutinin. But s...f H1N1’s haemagglutinin protein, helping that virus fuse to cell membranes. That...

    3857 days ago

  • Fourth Branch of Life

    Scientist have found the biggest viruses known, pandoraviruses which opened up entirely /completely......mdash;in length, the newfound genus Pandoravirus dwarfs other viruses, which r...e at @ http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/viruses101/newly_found_pandoravirus...

    3853 days ago

  • New Vaccine Clears AIDS-Causing Virus in Monkeys

    A newly developed vaccine has the ability to...mpletely kill simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in non-human primates,...pproach involves the use of cytomegalovirus, or CMV, a common virus alrea...elicited and maintained by cytomegalovirus vectors. Reference: http://...

    3845 days ago

  • Tigers genome sequenced

    Fifteen scientists led by Dr Jong Bhak of Genome Research Foundation, South Korea, decoded as many as 3 billion nucl...identified 20,000 genes related to various functions of the tiger.  The bigge...

    3845 days ago

  • Biggest Human Brain Project (HBP) launched!!!

    "In neuroscience, the project will use neuroinformatics and brain simulation to collect and integrate experimental data, identifying and filling gaps in our knowledg...

    3824 days ago

  • Ebola virus disease (EVD)or Ebola haemorrhagic fever !!!

    ...n humans, caused by the Ebola virus. The disease has high mortali...is caused by infection with a virus of the family Filoviridae, ge...n humans. They are Bundibugyo virus (BDBV), Ebola virus (EBOV), S...areas or countries where the virus is found is the best way to a...

    3518 days ago

  • Illumina Smartphone Chip !!!

    Illumina, the company that claims it brought human genome sequencing down to $1000 prices, has now turned its attent...ou can plug into your smartphone and have it read your genetic information.The bigge...

    3376 days ago

  • NCBI to assist in Virus Hunting Data Science Hackathon

    NCBI Hackathon are pleased to announce the se...who have experience in computational virus hunting or adjacent fields to...wn, taxonomically-definable and novel viruses from a few hundred thousand...ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2018/11/09/ncbi-sdsu-virus-hunting-data-science-hackatho...

    1960 days ago

  • Complete genome sequence of Wuhan seafood market pneumonia virus is out !

    Wuhan-Hu-1 claimed at least 40 lives and infected at least 1300 others in China. Cases are now being reported from Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, V...

    1519 days ago